Dougal And The Blue Cat - When The Magic Roundabout Hit The Big Screen
Prepare to be dazzled by the combined genius of Serge Danot, Ivor Wood and Eric Thompson!
A trip to the pictures in early 1972 was a challenging affair. Settling down with your carton of Kia-Ora, you squinted through wisps of cigarette fumes (only Rank cinemas then offered non-smoking sections) at the likes of A Clockwork Orange, Roman Polanski’s bloody Macbeth and a grisly, sexualised version of the story of Burke and Hare. Coming attractions included Clint Eastwood’s nihilistic Dirty Harry, Hammer’s Vampire Circus and Hitchcock’s queasy London serial killer psychodrama Frenzy.
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